NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: Has The Waiting Paid Off?
Six months have passed since the first DirectX 11 accelerator seeing the light of day. ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 (Reviews/Graphics-cards/ATI-Radeon-HD-5870-vs-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX285.html) was presented on 23rd September 2009. After its appearance and the graduate fading of the media appraisal of the new standards and models, all eyes turned to Nvidia, impatiently waiting for a competitor. Unfortunately, as time went by with no response, Nvidia started to gather attention by some rather strange ways. First of all, an overblown secrecy surrounding the development of the new GPU which was supposedly on its way, supported by a “fishy” model of a supposed Fermi card by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun himself. A premature leak of “white paper” material followed, which is a rather awkward move in itself, although Nvidia isn’t exactly new to the concept of “paper launch”.
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AMD releases OpenGL 4.0 preview driver
AMD has managed to delivered a driver supporting the recently-announced OpenGL 4.0 programming interface before Nvidia: the preview Catalyst driver brings OpenGL 3.3 support for Radeon HD 2000 series cards and higher, as well as for FireGL and FirePro professional cards, and enables OGL 4.0 on Radeon HD 5000 family.
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Asus Eee PC T101MT tablet costs 499 EUR
Asus Eee PC T101MT convertible tablet has appeared on Amazon.de (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/b0037qg5m6/geizhalspre03-21/ref=nosim?m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF) , exposing its price tag which is 499 EUR. For this kind of cash you'll get a 1.3kg Pine Trail-based portable PC with a 10.1 (1024x600) touchscreen, a 1.66 GHz Atom N450 CPU, 2GB of RAM, GMA 3150 integrated graphics, a 320GB hard drive (plus 500GB web storage), and a 0.3 megapixel webcam.
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